Stanley Kubrick

News about Stanley Kubrick, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Dec. 7, 2014

J Hoberman compares and contrasts work of so-called 'control freak' directors Jacques Tati and Stanley Kubrick, who each have DVD and Blu-ray boxed sets out. MORE

Jul. 27, 2014

Photographs taken by director Stanley Kubrick during his years as New York photojournalist during the 1940s, long before he became one of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time, highlighted. MORE

Mar. 31, 2013

Stanley Kubrick’s longtime assistant, Leon Vitali, says various theories about hidden meanings in The Shining, proposed in the Rodney Ascher documentary Room 237, are just are unfounded, calling them 'balderdash' and laughable. MORE

Mar. 4, 2013

Steven Spielberg says he plans to develop Stanley Kubrick’s unproduced screenplay about the life of Napoleon as a television miniseries. MORE

Nov. 1, 2012

Art and film world celebrities attend the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s second annual Art & Film gala, honoring Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and the late film director Stanley Kubrick. MORE

Jan. 29, 2012

Rodney Ascher documentary Room 237 explores three decades of analysis by scholars and fans trying to find meaning in Stanley Kubrick's puzzling film adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. MORE

March 31, 2013, Sunday

While another collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg would seem to require a time machine, a Ouija board or some sort of interdimensional extraterrestrial monolith, plans are nonetheless underway for these two celebrated...